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Nice catch. I've kept quiet about that place for 45 years, among others. Hope you don't have to fish with a crowd of boats there next time. 
Every part of Florida's ecosystems have been negatively affected by what the Army Corps of Engineers (and Chamber of Commerce) did for decades, and the efforts to repair as much of the damage as possible are taking a back seat to population growth and development.Unfortunately, it looks as if rising sea levels will eventually claim the area. Isn’t that why the Park Service is building/built/rebuilt the dams? They’re supposed to be the stop gap to head off the process man put in effect the many years ago?
Remember reading that when East Cape Canal was first dug, you could jump across it. And, that Ingram was a natural freshwater lake/estuary…
Good info @iMacattackLink to a paper written in 2010. The first paragraph outlines the problem clearly.
https://acwi.gov/sos/pubs/2ndJFIC/Contents/5C_Boudreau_02_25_10_paper.pdf
You really have to look at any information provided by government sources as suspect. They have earned our distrust honestly, lol.The incursion of saltwater into formerly freshwater marsh systems as the result of sea level rise has also led to physical collapse of the marshes.